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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/HisNameWasShagbark on 2024-01-21 16:22:43+00:00.
I am fairly new to this and just recently in the past 6 months or so (June 2023) started to organize my life and data to have better control and archiving. I've got 4 kids, a few businesses, wife, and as everyone can imagine - countless data, docs and files that I should save and stop paying cloud providers for.
I'm now about 8 TB deep into my system. I see how this will get out of control quickly, and my issue that I didn't consider is retrieval.
How does everyone organize or index their data?
I don't mean like file name conventions, tag or folder systems. I am curious if you build a database to store key information such as:
- Backup Archives
- File Name | Archiving Date | File Summary | Etc.
- Directory MOC
- Directory Name | File Types/Rules | Dates and Source Locations | etc...
I want to avoid the pitfall of when I need to find that one set of PDFs or photos from that one period I think was maybe between August 2016 and March 2017... for example.
Just curious of the process some bigger hoarders have taken to help me avoid a nightmare.